Practical,grounded.

I came to this work the long way around. A decade in not-quite-the-right careers, a few burnouts, a slow recovery that taught me more than any of the jobs did, and a strong feeling — eventually — that what helped me wasn’t advice. It was the right person sitting opposite, paying real attention, asking better questions than I was asking myself.

I trained in the Diploma of Clinical Hypnotherapy and Strategic Psychotherapy through the Institute of Applied Psychology, and I hold a counselling background underneath that. I’m a member of the Australian Hypnotherapists Association and bound by their code of ethics and continuing-education requirements.

The shape of my work is simple: the body and the mind aren’t separate disciplines that politely refer to each other. They’re one system. Anxiety lives in the shoulders. Grief sits below the diaphragm. The pattern you can’t name is usually held somewhere physical, and the pain you can’t locate is usually carrying a story. I work with both at once.

My specialty interest is women in transition — the life-stage shifts that don’t have a clear name. Becoming a mother, ceasing to be one in the day-to-day sense, perimenopause, the quiet end of a long relationship, the moment a career stops fitting. The thresholds where the old map runs out and the new one hasn’t arrived.

Outside the practice I grow more food than two people can eat, swim at Brunswick Heads most mornings the swell allows, and am slowly raising a daughter who has very firm opinions about which leaves count as salad. The studio is at home; the dog is well-behaved.